International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research, Regional Centers

Research activities are being conducted by the ICEMRS in the following regions, comprising more than 17 countries and over 50 field sites: Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Africa, West Africa, Southern and Central Africa, Amazonia, Latin America (outside of Amazonia), and the SW Pacific.

ICEMR Regional Centers

• Amazonian Center of Excellence in Malaria Research
  Principal Investigator: Joseph Vinetz, M.D.
  Lead Institution: Yale University, New Haven
• Multidisciplinary Research for Malaria Control and Prevention in West Africa
  Principal Investigator: Seydou Doumbia, M.D., Ph. D.
  Lead Institution: University of Sciences, Tech & Tech of Bamako, Bamako
• Malaria Transmission and the Impact of Control Efforts in Southern and Central Africa
  Principal Investigator: William Moss, M.D.
  Lead Institution: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore
• Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance & Modeling of Malaria in Uganda (PRISM)
  Principal Investigator: Grant Dorsey, M.D.
  Lead Institution: University of California, San Francisco
• The Intransigence of Malaria in Malawi: Understanding Hidden Reservoirs, Successful Vectors and Prevention Failures
  Co-Principal Investigators: Terrie Taylor, D.O. and Don Mathanga, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: Michigan State University, East Lansing
• Environmental Modifications in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changing Epidemiology, Transmission and Pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax Malaria
  Principal Investigator: Guiyun Yan, Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: University of California, Irvine
• Southeast Asia Malaria Research Center
  Co-Principal Investigators: Liwang Cui, Ph.D. and Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: University of South Florida, Tampa
• Understanding, Tracking and Eliminating Malaria Transmission in The Asia - Pacific Region
  Principal Investigator: Ivo Mueller, Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia
• Myanmar Regional Center of Excellence for Malaria Research
  Co-Principal Investigators: Dennis Clements, M.D., M.P.H. and Wendy O’Meara, Ph.D..
  Lead Institution: Duke University, Durham
• Malaria Evolution in South Asia
  Principal Investigator: Pradipsinh Rathod, Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: University of Washington, Seattle
• Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in India
  Principal Investigator: Jane Carlton, Ph.D.
  Lead Institution: New York University, New York